Royal Pre-Inca Tomb Discovered With Thousand-Year-Old Wari Queens
posted on June 30th, 2013 in Archaeology, Peru, Recent Discoveries
A 1,200-year-old ceramic painted with a Wari lord, recently discovered at the tomb of El Castillo de Huarmey in Peru
First Unlooted Royal Tomb of Its Kind Unearthed in Peru
Three queens were buried with golden treasures, human sacrifices.
National Geographic
Published June 27, 2013
It was a stunning discovery: the first unlooted imperial tomb of the Wari, the ancient civilization that built South America’s earliest empire between 700 and 1000 A.D. Yet it wasn’t happiness that Milosz Giersz felt when he first glimpsed gold in the dim recesses of the burial chamber in northern Peru.